Political Science

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583948958Author Monica SharmaFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Across the world, there is a growing recognition that a new kind of economy is needed: more democratic, less exploitative, less destructive of society and the planet. Paint Your Town Red looks at how wealth can be generated and shared at a local level...

Francis Fukuyama's controversial 1992 book The End of History and the Last Man demonstrates an important aspect of creative thinking: the ability to generate hypotheses and create novel explanations for evidence. In the case of Fukuyama's work, the...

Iran has rarely been out of the headlines. Yet media interest and extensive coverage has tended to hinder rather than help our understanding of Iran as an idea, an identity, and a people, leading to a superficial understanding of what is a complex and...

A sweeping intellectual history of the welfare state's policy-in-waiting. The idea of a government paying its citizens to keep them out of poverty-now known as basic income-is hardly new. Often dated as far back as ancient Rome, basic income's modern...

Written when Engels was only twenty-four, and inspired in particular by his time living amongst the poor in Manchester, this forceful polemic explores the staggering human cost of the Industrial Revolution in Victorian England. Engels paints an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590176207Author Simon LeysFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams) 565gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910202319Author Richard McMunnFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint How2become LtdPublisher How2become LtdDimensions(mm) 242mm * 168mm * 12mm

In the rich and varied life stories in Under the Black Umbrella, elderly Koreans recall incidents that illustrate the complexities of Korea during the colonial period. Hildi Kang here reinvigorates a period of Korean history long shrouded in the silence...

As inequalities widen and the effects of austerity deepen, in many countries the wealth of the rich has soared. Why we can't afford the rich exposes the unjust and dysfunctional mechanisms that allow the top 1% to siphon off wealth produced by others,...

'Every voice raised against racism chips away at its power. We can't afford to stay silent. This book is an attempt to speak' The book that sparked a national conversation. Exploring everything from eradicated black history to the inextricable link...

Queen of historical fiction Emma Carroll makes her Barrington Stoke debut with a powerful, evocative, and spine-tingling story of childhood on the brink of war. SUMMER 1914 When Fran uncovers a bone in the...

'An urgent manifesto for collective healing.' David Lammy MP This landmark book tackles a deceptively simple idea: the more we spend time with people unlike ourselves, doing things together, the more understanding, tolerant, and even friendly...

The life and influence of singer Phil Ochs Phil Ochs burst onto the American music scene just as the popularity of folk music was breaking through on the national consciousness. Along with friend and rival Bob Dylan, Ochs wrote some of the most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619020535Author Bill IveyFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint CounterpointPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 140mm * 18mm

Ireland was England's oldest colony. Making Empire revisits the history of empire in Ireland-in a time of Brexit, 'the culture wars', and the campaigns around 'Black Lives Matter' and 'Statues must fall'-to better understand how it has formed the...

In Speculation as a Mode of Production: Forms of Value Subjectivity in Art and Capital, Marina Vishmidt offers a new perspective on one of the main categories of capitalist life in the historical present. Writing not under the shadow but in the spirit of...

'The most important book about our economy and society to be published in my lifetime' Irvine WelshFrom Paul Mason, the award-winning Channel 4 presenter, Postcapitalism is a guide to our era of seismic economic change, and how we can build a more equal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062322531Author Paul KixFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 227g

Through its focus on EU Association Agreement negotiations, this book goes beyond the study of traditional EU trade negotiations and puts the spotlight on the increasing number of negotiations where trade relations are discussed alongside political ones...

Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780891284482Author William R WienerFormat HardbackPage Count 720Imprint American Printing House for the BlindPublisher American Printing House for the...

The significance that people grant to their affiliations as members of nations, religions, classes, races, ethnicities and genders is evidence of the vital need for a cosmopolitan project that originates in the figure of Anyone - the universal and yet...

Chug along with a farmer and his tractor on this multi-season animal adventure! A busy farmer picks up fifteen animals along his route, but when his trailer hits a stone, chaos ensues. This colourful book combines simple counting instruction with humour,...

"A clearly articulated manifesto for those trying to preserve Tokyo's emergent properties, Emergent Tokyo helps distil lessons for other cities" -Benjamin Bansal, Urban Studies Journal This book examines the urban fabric of contemporary Tokyo as a...

Since the 1948 war which drove them from their heartland, the Palestinian people have consistently been denied the most basic democratic rights. Blaming the Victims shows how the historical fate of the Palestinians has been justified by spurious academic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913083342Author John ZubrzyckiFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Old Street PublishingPublisher Old Street PublishingDimensions(mm) 230mm * 145mm * 22mm

When Minh Pham was extradited from Britain to the US to face terrorism related charges, his appeal against the deprivation of his British citizenship was still pending. Soon after he arrived his appeal was lost and he was effectively made stateless...

'A fascinating journey through the game's history [as] a vehicle of change' Shaka Hislop 'Correia takes us around the world to examine how football has produced the kind of political energy that can change minds and even topple governments' Dave Zirin...

'Deliciously tactile and meditative . . . to read this is to luxuriate in the land, and to connect to it and oneself' Bernardine Evaristo What fills my lungs is wider than breath could be. It is a place and a language torn, matted and melded; flowered...

A Financial Times BEST BOOKS OF 2021'Engaging, authoritative and very timely. Marco Alvera spells Hydrogen's critical role as an energy store in the clean power transition' - Mike Berners-Lee, author of THERE IS NO PLANET BPicture this: It's 2050. The...

A Times, Financial Times and Telegraph Book of the Year 2023'Illuminates some of the great trends of our time' - Gideon Rachman, Financial Times'Vivid, urgent and unsettling' - Tom Holland, author of Dominion_____What does it now mean to call yourself...

How are great turning points in history experienced by individuals?As Britain pulls away from Europe great British writers come together to give voice to their innermost feelings. These writers include novelists, writers of books for children, of comic...

Using Political Ideas is a unique blend of political philosophy, political theory and history of political thought. It combines a critique of the major ideologies of recent and contemporary society with an analysis of the ideas that form the very stuff...

France-the romanticised, revolutionary land of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity for all-is failing. Reform is urgently needed. This book is a powerful indictment of the status quo, and a highly original perspective on the challenges to which the nation...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780717808878Author Enfu ChengFormat PaperbackPage Count 430Imprint International Publishers Co Inc.,U.S.Publisher International Publishers Co Inc.,U.S...

How to create the world's new urban future With the majority of the world's population shifting to urban centres, urban planning-the practice of land-use and transportation planning to help shape cities structurally, economically, and socially-has...

The Skripal Files tells the full story behind the Salisbury Poisonings, one of the most shocking incidents to occur in Britain in recent memory. Broadcaster and historian Mark Urban interviewed Sergei Skripal in the months before the poisoning and...

'The powerful new voice of her generation' The Times 'Funny, nuanced and wonderful' Jon Ronson 'A book that had me hollering, nodding and questioning at the same time' Candice Carty-Williams, author of Queenie ------- A candid...

Our Brains at War: The Neuroscience of Conflict and Peacebuilding suggests that we need a radical change in how we think about war, leadership, and politics. Most of us, political scientists included, fail to appreciate the extent to which instincts and...